Beginner Course [PRESALE]
This is a presale. You will pay now and receive the course login instructions at a later date. Current estimate is March 1, 2025.
Reserve your access to Matt Brown’s forthcoming Beginner Course for thumb lead, two-finger banjo! This pre-recorded class will allow you to work through the curriculum at your own pace and on your own schedule. It is intended to be completed with Matt’s tablature book Thumb Lead Two-Finger Banjo as the text (you can order your copy of the book below).
Matt spent more than a decade teaching this approachable style of old-time banjo picking in the classrooms of the Old Town School of Folk Music, the Louisville Folk School, and on Zoom. He has worked through these easy old-time songs and fiddle tunes with hundreds of students.
Each course purchased includes one 45-minute private lesson with Matt on Zoom.
Course Features:
high-definition video
studio-quality audio
jam videos with Strum Machine backing tracks
eternal access
no recurring fees
You’ll Learn:
how to hold the banjo
how to tune the banjo
how to read tablature
relevant music theory
how to practice
how to play in two tunings: gDGBD & aEAC#E
The Golden “Rule” of Thumb
6 picking exercises
2 scales
7 beginner arrangements of old-time songs and fiddle tunes
This is a presale. You will pay now and receive the course login instructions at a later date. Current estimate is March 1, 2025.
Reserve your access to Matt Brown’s forthcoming Beginner Course for thumb lead, two-finger banjo! This pre-recorded class will allow you to work through the curriculum at your own pace and on your own schedule. It is intended to be completed with Matt’s tablature book Thumb Lead Two-Finger Banjo as the text (you can order your copy of the book below).
Matt spent more than a decade teaching this approachable style of old-time banjo picking in the classrooms of the Old Town School of Folk Music, the Louisville Folk School, and on Zoom. He has worked through these easy old-time songs and fiddle tunes with hundreds of students.
Each course purchased includes one 45-minute private lesson with Matt on Zoom.
Course Features:
high-definition video
studio-quality audio
jam videos with Strum Machine backing tracks
eternal access
no recurring fees
You’ll Learn:
how to hold the banjo
how to tune the banjo
how to read tablature
relevant music theory
how to practice
how to play in two tunings: gDGBD & aEAC#E
The Golden “Rule” of Thumb
6 picking exercises
2 scales
7 beginner arrangements of old-time songs and fiddle tunes
This is a presale. You will pay now and receive the course login instructions at a later date. Current estimate is March 1, 2025.
Reserve your access to Matt Brown’s forthcoming Beginner Course for thumb lead, two-finger banjo! This pre-recorded class will allow you to work through the curriculum at your own pace and on your own schedule. It is intended to be completed with Matt’s tablature book Thumb Lead Two-Finger Banjo as the text (you can order your copy of the book below).
Matt spent more than a decade teaching this approachable style of old-time banjo picking in the classrooms of the Old Town School of Folk Music, the Louisville Folk School, and on Zoom. He has worked through these easy old-time songs and fiddle tunes with hundreds of students.
Each course purchased includes one 45-minute private lesson with Matt on Zoom.
Course Features:
high-definition video
studio-quality audio
jam videos with Strum Machine backing tracks
eternal access
no recurring fees
You’ll Learn:
how to hold the banjo
how to tune the banjo
how to read tablature
relevant music theory
how to practice
how to play in two tunings: gDGBD & aEAC#E
The Golden “Rule” of Thumb
6 picking exercises
2 scales
7 beginner arrangements of old-time songs and fiddle tunes